Cruise latest in a long line of celebrities to be declared dead
Actor Tom Cruise was reported dead this morning by 9 News, an Australian TV station. The site has since scrubbed any mention of the report, but Global Associated News attributes their story to 9 News.
The initial item claimed that Cruise had died in a single car crash while on vacation in Australia. The news station reported that he had been identified by a photo ID found at the scene. Further confirmation was allegedly provided by the Royal Queensland Police, who 9 News claimed had investigated the accident. Even more credence was given to the report because the crash was alleged to have occurred on one of the most dangerous stretches of road in the country.
Did it actually happen?
What isn’t known so far is whether the Cruise rumor is a total lie or just part of one. Since the news station no longer has any record of the story, it’s not known whether there was actually an accident and a false ID, or whether the entire story was made up out of whole cloth.
Cruise has died before
Three years ago, in a span of six months, the actor reportedly died multiple times while in New Zealand. Once in a car crash, once after falling off of a cliff and once in a plumbing accident.
Not the only one
Cruise, of course, isn’t the first celebrity to accidentally be declared dead. Two days ago, a confusing Twitter hash tag announcing the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher–#nowhatcherisdead–misled fans of singer Cher into thinking that the 66-year-old had died. In January, news spread that reggae singer Shaggy had been stabbed to death during a nightclub brawl in Los Angeles. For Shaggy, who’s still very much alive, it was the second time in a year that his death had become a rumor, after last summer’s rumor that he’d been killed, like Cruise, in a car accident.
Source- http://news.msn.com/rumors/rumor-tom-cruise-dies-in-car-crash
